[m-dev.] 0.12 release

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Peter Ross wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:12:24PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Peter Ross wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:56:54PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> > > > Since neither of these things is particularly critical I propose that we
> > > > release 0.12 next Friday (9 September).
> > > >
> > > For me one also needs to fix the bug, where one has tabled_io predicates
> > > which contain labels <http://tinyurl.com/bbcxo>.
> > >
> > Well, yes something does need to be done about that but I don't really
> > want to hold the release up because of it - there is a workaround,
> > admittedly not a very good one, for this problem.
> >
> There is a workaround?  I missed the messages explaining that, could you
> point me to it.
>
I was referring to Zoltan's suggestion to wrap the original body of the
foreign proc manually see
<http://www.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au/mailing-lists/mercury-developers/mercury-developers.200508/0004.html>

> > Ian/Zoltan, how difficult is to fix this?  The proposed solution was
> > to have tabled_for_io respect pragma inline, although I guess another
> > alternative is to have something like table_for_io_unsafe, that performs
> > a slightly different transformation that doesn't inline the body of
> > the foreign proc.
> >
> For me the fix should be quite trivial, I had a look at where to fix it
> myself, but didn't have the time to dig in deeper.  I really think this
> should delay the release because we will use 0.12 for a production
> system and this is a bug which effects us.
>

The release process is coming up for its first anniversary - I don't
really want to delay it much more.

Cheers,
Julien.
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